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RAID has gone 695 days without being checked, check forced.

I think that’s the entire period of time that I’ve had my RAID running here at home. Woops.

I’ve decided against setting up a new raid for extra space, as that will cost $500 or so and I just don’t need the multi-terrabytes of storage that would give me. Instead I paid a premium for another 250GB drive and have decided to ‘grow’ the current RAID instead.

I could have purchased a larger drive (twice as large actually) for a mere $20 more, but that space would also be wasted considering the current RAID is 250GB drives. I suppose I could do the swap/rebuild business over and over again until the array is using larger drives. That’s a lot of work and I would rather not go through that trouble.

So, for now, hopefully growing the current array by one drive will do the trick. I will, eventually, probably upgrade to something more substantial, but I think an extra 250GB will do me quite nicely for a while. I’m not really the type to store the entire internet anyway (unlike my brother Matt, hah).